The New York Times scoop, by Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, says Mueller “has learned of two conversations in recent months in which President Trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators”:

“[T]he president told an aide that the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, should issue a statement denying a New York Times article in January” about Trump asking McGahn to fire Mueller.

So good: “McGahn … had to remind the president that he had indeed asked Mr. McGahn to see that Mr. Mueller was dismissed.”

“In the other episode, Mr. Trump asked his former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, how his interview had gone with the special counsel’s investigators and whether they had been ‘nice.'”

Here’s the line from the story that I think is really important and rings as true: “The president has ignored his lawyers’ advice to avoid doing anything publicly or privately that could create the appearance of interfering with the investigation.”

I don’t know the technicalities of Witness Tampering, but if this isn’t it, it must be close. You can smell the flop sweat from here.

It's possible Donald Trump committed an explicit act of obstruction of justice that could lead to impeachment by trying to force the Department of Justice to prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey. Ari Melber reports.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) insisted on Sunday that there is no evidence that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, despite the multitude of events listed within the released report.

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The 2013 Supreme Court decision nullifying federal "preclearance" requirements for states and local governments with a past history of discriminating against minority voters continues to have widespread repercussions.

Before her discussion with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, the AM Joy host set up the segment by listing the vast array of choices of "high crimes and misdemeanors" Dems have from which to choose to impeach Trump.